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I make games n stuff
New “Game” – PollockPaint
Oct 3rd
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Ok, so it’s not really a game, but I made a paint program for a class this week. You can check it out here. Let me know what you think!
T-Shirt Designs: Woot Shirt Derby
Sep 18th
During my first semester at Georgia Tech, I discovered Shirt.Woot and their awesome design derbies. Every week they come up with a theme and ask for submissions. The submissions get voted on by Woot users, and the top three shirts are made and sold at the end of the week. I entered the contest a number of times, placing in the top 20 more than once. Here are some of my favorite ones:
Spore – Exactly as Advertised
Sep 7th
Remember Will Wright’s awesome live demo of Spore way back at GDC 2006? Well, the final product shipped last week and all the promises have been kept – but at the same time, it isn’t quite what I expected. Often I feel more like I’m playing a comibnation of KidPix and KOTOR than The Sims Space Animal Edition. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I guess I’m trying to say that Spore’s audience won’t be quite as large as The Sims 3. I’ll certainly get plenty of playtime out of it though, especially with the new PC:
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Reality Edges Out Review
Sep 5th
Castle Crashers is a reasonably fun game, certainly worth the $15 asking point on Xbox Live Arcade. IGN gave the game a 9.0 / 10. But unfortunately they discredited their entire review with one sentence on the first page:
“Killing enemies earns you experience points, just as in real life. ”
http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/903/903047p1.html
About the Indiecisive Project
Sep 2nd
Expect an announcement by the end of next month. The game is coming along nicely – a bit ahead of schedule, actually, and if everything goes well, you should be able to play it on your Xbox 360 this year.
I Can Has Composition
Aug 29th
Made this for a “music technology” class. This little clip was my first experience with music composition. Although techno and electronic music aren’t anywhere near my favorite genres, it was required for the assignment.
Download (3.61 MB)
The Honors Potty Chart
Aug 20th
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I was cleaning up some old photos off my camera and I came across this. As a joke last year in the dorms, I collaborated with a few friends to pull a prank on everyone living on my floor. The story was that Georgia Tech Dining was trying to conserve water, and so therefore they would be testing a “water recycling system” (taking drainage from the toliets to use in the dining halls) in order to encourage students to flush when they use the restroom. It’s amazing how many people fell for this, putting up a sticker every time they flushed, especially considering it was an “honors dorm.” It’s probably even more embarrassing for Georgia Tech Dining. Anyways, my biggest contribution to the project was the “official flyer” seen at the bottom, complete with a toliet resting against the rotting tree.
Spy’s sappin’ mah hurricane!
Aug 19th
A couple of interesting developments today. My hometown of Jacksonville is expected to receive its first direct hit from a hurricane in over 20 years, and the Team Fortress 2 “Heavy Update” was released on Steam. I never thought I would want to be home so soon after coming back to school, but the enviroment around hurricanes is just plain fun. I mean, yeah, they’re dangerous, but nothing is funnier than seeing a weatherman get pelted by a flying sign while talking about how windy it is on television, because the multiple camera angles of trees blowing over just doesn’t do a storm justice. Even funnier than Meet the Sandvich.
Also, running 200 feet of ethernet cable is exactly as difficult as it sounds like it would be.
